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One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.

The body or office of the quindecemviri.

C15H26, of the valylene series, produced artificially as an oily liquid. [Written also quindekone.]

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the fatty acid series, containing fifteen atoms of carbon; called also pentadecylic acid.

A fifteenth part. [Obs.]

See Reindeer. [Obs.]

Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

To make a rejoinder. [Archaic]

In a variable expansion central-valve engine, a small auxiliary engine for automatically adjusting the steam distribution to the load on the main engine. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant. "The last remainders of unhappy Troy." Dryden. If these decoctions be repeated till the water comes off clear, the remainder yields no salt. Arbuthnot.

One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3. Blackstone.

One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.

Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.

A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.

A reaping machine containing mechanism for binding the grain into sheaves.

Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.

A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary. [Slang.]

Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n.

Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single- hearted.

Having a disposition or temper habitually sober. -- So"ber-mind`ed*ness, n.